The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-06-12
MAGDALENA FORMS DEATH.
NOT TIE SLIGHTEST CLUE M WHICH
HER MURDERER CAN BE TRACED.

Two weeks ago yesterday little Mngdalena
Zorn, plucking buttercups and daisies with her
picnicking companions on tho hillside Mt Fort
George. wandered n little away from tho oth-
ers and disappeared. A week ago to-day her
body, naked and n,angled. with her clothes
and tho bouquet OF wild flowers beside 1t, was
found in a shallow pool in tho marsh near
where she played, yet at n spot which she could
not have reached OF herself except by q long
and toilsome walk Of over mile.
This is all that is known. The police who
were unable to find any trace Of her body after
she was lost. have been equally as helpless In
discovering the manner OF her death. Acct
dent that uncovered her body. has as yet failed
to disclose the mystery Of her fate.
The efforts OF The SUN, which first traced
her toward the marsh where she was found,
have gone so much further as to prove beyond
doubt that she was the victim OF some cruel
and heartess wretch who, to save himself from
trouble, or for some other reason accomplished
black as though she had loft not even her body
IRE. questions which, for ali that is known now
or for my clue that is possessed may go un-
THE SUNS investigation yesterday had no
he i aid
hses T. mhG that Il
fSSS fSri bs I'd
into IT, and been drowned. instead Of going
ony paasibty from the fact tas the Car.
Evansville police claimed to have the statement
ssRn w SwD s Sod H %ss ennd in
y assuming that Ovens has made a mistake
death at a time consistent with tho time at
Joseph Owens. repeated his story to a SUN
reporter yesterday:
am PRETTY vas Is tie
and s to the The eah sy h9G II kn %as
meadow mead and Jaw S girl in the marsh paid
common for girl TO be where saw her. You
see them there almost any day. The spot was
Sc
~ he made
ss wss S the
girl except that she had some kind Of a gray
o Ea re
| or anything else about her dress.
utes past St am positive Of that Know be-
cause won't on to my brothers. and had been
ten hse beM eoud hs has
bee been az O'clock because was back home be-
seen by Owens in the marsh having been Mag.
dalsna the sePGrt,er reinhaerEEogated Nicholas
D'ssf Il was about o'eock When The girl was
~ sSsss Ss s xSs, SI;
ea sw hass pssa pass ssssr thsa a0s
The lslisns g Noss q The hin repeated that
Mwes about twenty minutes q 4 o'clock
s at ooet she ana s
S% sSopD 2oss S, b as1 to a here
her body was found In less than an hour or
nearly two hours after ter, the time t Owens saw
Half an hour after Magdalena was at his
house, Bishop says her teacher, searching for
After her She H Mas being looked for al ali over
the hin then. long before she could have gotten
ten to tho spot Where the body lay without be.
inG seen by some one looking for her.
'' H. sissstien now i hat the siTl disappeared
tie h back q p ~ 1hs MHqs T1r
Two q these people tell a toIerably s.raishs
sonss paes toWsrd EeSsnth avseas
and hAying disapeEeared .hd IN that dirsc.
| t1On Threo ltallan IADOr0rB on c00
blur above say that Sirl WIG, whose d a
eirl, came up that avenue from the path she q
wksa as
was lost to sight; at o,clock. behind gas
OF her until her dead body was found, in the
marsh; No one in the six Or seven houses.
oa 1%f S
fssn Any saeS sls Shs SsssS% 1s q IL j, gas !,
pass there. The italians were hundred yards
GTars1 Uns pa
avenue, The one they saw may not have been
sis fsdsRss
at ali conclusive. II she did get there
hs;s met l her late sis
curves in the road. the, lack Of houses, denss
and rocky WOODS At the right and church church.
she ssf assS:
yenient and. natural pathway along which her
body could be carried, when darkness came. to
the spot where It was afterward found:
deeper. The time was so short. Between her
Always 50 many people about that part Of tho
snd the are 50 that
5 fhe crime theory h Ssr
| first injuries came from dogs, and that her
death and the concealmert of her body were
the result of subsequent endeavors by the own.
ers Of the dogs TO keep themselves out Of
| trouble, is natural ono to form. but II hard one
to defend. To argue that she could success
fully have been seized and carried off after she
left the Bishops. is to set UP marvel9usly
The misstatement by tho police Of the facts
| as to the condition of the body when found. and
| tho carelessness Of the Deputy Coroner In fall
Ing to make any satisfactory examination OF
the body. have added complicating circup-
| stances to the already sufficient mystery OF the
affair. The inquest will be held tomorrow.
Nine OF Ferries Ribs BroLen.
Deputy Coroner Jenkins made an autopsy
yesterday the body Of George Ferris violent luna
| tic, who died recently In the asylum on Wards Island
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